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If Zero Didn't Exist

A Poem about numbers

By Christopher BeardPublished 2 months ago 1 min read
If Zero Didn't Exist
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If Zero Didn't Exist

Imagine if zero didn't exist

Then there would be nothing

Oh but wait, we would have to have something as we just got rid of nothing

But would out zero things would be empty

No, that can't be right because then we would have zero

So if zero didn't exist we would have nothing

But at the same time we would have to have something

As nothing can't exist without something

But if things were truly empty would we have nothing or zero?

Take your time to contemplate on nothing

For then zero will not be wasted

So to have nothing means we need to have something else

But if zero didn't exist could nothing be empty or would something be there?

So if we replace nothing with something we would really have something

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Christopher Beard

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  • Raymond G. Taylor22 days ago

    Ha ha love the zero conundrum and well put. Of course another way to look at it would be to say that zero is half way between minus one and plus one. On which basis it is as valid a number as either 1 or -1. Glad to find someone else who loves zero.

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